Tarzan

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.

Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɹzæn/

Tarzan

1. (fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.

• Tarzana
• Tarzanesque
• Tarzanian
• Tarzan swing

Tarzan (plural Tarzans)

1. (by extension) A strong wild man.
   • 2011, John Creasey, The Flood:

     There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.

• Dutch: Tarzan
• Swedish: Tarzan

• Tarzan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Tarzan

1. Tarzan

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

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Tarzan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Tarzans)

1. Tarzan

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

• IPA^(key): /¹taʂan/

Tarzan c (genitive Tarzans)

1. Tarzan

   dra en Tarzan

   jerk off ("pull a Tarzan") (idiomatic)

• runka (“jerk off”)